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derekirving
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Link Posted on Aug 31 2016 10:15 AM

@jobeast - yes Brett Brubaker is awesome, he rewound one of my 60's DeArmond Rowe pickups and NAILED it. Too bad Brubaker doesn't make pickups

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Link Posted on Aug 31 2016 10:29 AM

My Rocket has an aftermarket Bigsby (good) and ABS Tuneamatic bridge (not so good) which I eventually replaced with an aluminum Compton bridge. This really brought the guitar to life in the last year I had it.
Hope the person who has it now is actually a player...

Old_Tele_man wrote:

It's always surprised that those "old" STRAIGHT (acoustic) bridges actually sounded any good, especially with a wiggle stick. But, acoustics seem to have worked fine all these years (ha,ha)!

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so1om
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Link Posted on Sep 02 2016 09:26 AM

Fantastic all the way around. Great pic, great gear. Thanks for sharing.

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JObeast
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Link Posted on Sep 02 2016 08:30 PM

He basically made mine because the only thing still original of those joke Kawai things are the chrome cases (which look cool) . He put new bobbins and everything in them sent them back to me with the useless old pickups that I think I used for fridge magnets.

derekirving wrote:

@jobeast - yes Brett Brubaker is awesome, he rewound one of my 60's DeArmond Rowe pickups and NAILED it. Too bad Brubaker doesn't make pickups

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Surfabilly
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Link Posted on Sep 03 2016 06:02 AM

Eastwood sells a reproduction, billed as an Airline H78, but the web site text does mention Harmony and Silvertone.

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Old_Tele_man
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Link Posted on Sep 04 2016 10:06 AM

HEATHKIT™ also sold those Harmony/Airline H78's, in red-burst as I recall, at the same time with their solid-state guitar amp kits.

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